Attachable seat for water-closets.



No. 799,935. PATBNTED SEPT. 19, 1.905.

` H. PARKER..

'ATTAUHABLB SEAT FOR WATER ULOSETS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15.1905. A

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WIT #68858. INVENTO? UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE ATTACHABLE SEAT FOR WATER-CLOSETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 19, 1905.

Application filed February l5, 1905. Serial No. 245,731.

To (all zii/tom, it may concern.-

Be'it known that I, HAYWooD PARKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Asheville, in the county of Buncombe` and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and Improved Attachable Seat for Water- Olosets, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

At home and while traveling it is frequently imperative that small children `must occupy the seats of water-closets provided for adults, which is manifestly uncomfortable and to a certain extent dangerous, as a fall rearward might injure the spine of the child by striking the same against the rear edge of the seatopening.

The object of this invention is to provide a small portable seat-board having an opening of reduced diameter which may be instantly placed in position upon -the seat proper, be firmly held in place automatically, avoid the least injury to the water-closet, and be readily removable when not required for service.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described, and defined in the subjoined claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective View of a watercloset having the improvement applied upon the seat-board. Fig. 2 is a reversed plan View of the improved attachable seat-board and securing meansthereon. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the closet-seat and of the attachable seatboard, shown broken away for exposure of spring-fingers that are details of the securing means; and Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal' sectional view substantially on the line 4 4 in Fig. 1, showing the childs seat-board mounted and removably secured upon the stationary seat-board of the water-closet.

In illustrating the construction and application of the improvement, 5 represents the bowl of a water-closet of modern construction held vertically stationary on the floor of a toilet-room in the usual way for convenient use. Upon the flat upper edge of the lbowl 5 the apertured seat-board 6 is imposed and secured by suitable means and may'have a cover 6 hinged thereon, as shown in Fig. 1 and partially in Fig. 4.

7 indicates the improved seat-board, that in use is mounted upon the stationary seat-board 6 and detachably held thereon by means which will`presently be described. The seat-board 7 may be formed of a wooden planchet having parallel sides and a suitable thickness and a marginal shape, preferably as represen ted in the drawings. The superficial area of the planchet or seat-board 7 isso proportioned that it will fully cover and overlap the edge of the opening a, formed in the stationary seat-board 6, when the detachable seat-board is placed thereover. The normally front edge portion of the seat-board 7 is curved and may be semicircular, as appears in Figs. 2 and 3, this curved margin b being merged into the straight edges which extend rearward and end in a transverse edge portion 722. The opening c in the seat-board 7 is of a proper diameter for its purpose and may be circular marginally, as shown. Near the rear edge portion of the opening c a preferably metal reinforce-plate 8 is mounted transversely upon the normally lower side of the seat-board 7 and is thereto secured, this plate being preferably curved-edgewise, as shown, and by its position and manner of attachment serves as a hatten-strip, preventing the board 7 from splitting. Upon the reinforce-plate 8, near each end thereof, the iiattened ends of two resilient hook-bars 9 9 are respectively mounted and secured as follows: As shown, each of the pair of spring hook-bars consists of a plate-like body portion having a Hat end portion l attached upon an end of the reinforcing-plate 8 by screws or rivets. From the portion d the plate-like bodies of the hookbars 9 are curved laterally and toward each other, thus extending the free ends thereof toward each other, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. A hook member e' is formed on the free end portion of each spring hook-bar 9, said hooks being bent downward and rearward and so disposed with regard to the opening a in the stationary seat-board 6 when the seat-board 7 is mounted thereon that the hooks e may be passed below the lower rear edge of said opening and latched thereon, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Upon the lowerside of the seat-board 7 at its transverse center and near the front edge a locking-finger IO is placed, which may be stationary, but preferably is adapted for a change in position toward or from the front edge of the seat-board. The finger IO is of metal in rod form, extending down from a base-plate g, slotted longitudinally for the pas- Sage therethrough of a clamping-screw 7i, that may be manipulated by gripping the head IOO IIO

thereon and thus clamp the base-plate and ringer at a suitable point. The relative position given to the linger 1() is such that when the hooks e have been engaged with the rear lower edge of the seat-opening a, the seatboard 7 then inclining upward from rear to front, pressure applied upon the front edge of said seat-board will cause the spring hookbars 9 to yield, so that the finger 10 may be pressed down across the adjacent portion of the edge of the seat-opening a and hold the seat-board 7 seated upon the stationary seatboard 6. It will be seen that if the width of the seat-opening a from front to rear is such that a proper pressure on the hook-bars 9 is not produced bythe position given to the finger l0 the inger may be moved forward suiiciently to compensate for the looseness and put the spring-bars 9 under increased tension, thus holding the seat-board 7 firmly upon the seat-board 6.

It will be noted that the supplementary seatboard 7 is quite light, is not bulky, can be readily carried in a suitable case for use when traveling, and when applied renders any water-closet having an ordinary seat-board available for the safe and convenient accommodation of small children. Furthermore, it is obvious that the device is an excellent provision for sanitary purposes and may by having an aperture of proper dimensions be carried and applied upon a public water-closet for the protection of adult persons against disease that might result from the use of the closet.

Minor changes in the proportion and form of details may be made, and all such changes are claimed that fall within the scope of the claims.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a water closet bowl, and an apertured seatboard hinged thereon, of a supplementary seat-board having a smaller aperture therein, two resilient hook-bars on the supplementary seat-board,

and a depending finger on said seat-board, opposite said hook-bars, the hooks and finger engaging the edge of the aperture in the seatboard.

2. The combination with a water-closet seatboard having an aperture therethrough, of a supplementary seat-board having a smaller aperture therein, a reinforce-plate secured upon the normally lower side of the supplementary seat board, resilient hook bars mounted at corresponding ends on the reinforcing-plate, and a depending finger on the lower side of the supplementary seat-board nearly opposite the hooks on the bars, these hooks and the ringer having spring-pressed contact with the edge of the aperture in the main seat-board when the supplementary seatboard is mounted thereon.

3. As an article of manufacture, a seat-board having an aperture therein, apair of curved resilient hook-bars secured on the lower side of said seat-board so as to project the hooks thereon away from the aperture, and a depending finger on the lower side of the seatboard forward of the aperture.

4. As an article of manufacture', a seat-board having an aperture therein, a reinforce-plate secured on the lower side of the seat-board rearward of the aperture, two similar resilient hook-bars secured by corresponding ends on the reinforce plate and spaced apart, said hook-bars being curved laterally and oppositely, a hook member bent rearwardly from the lower edge of each hook-bar at its free end, and a finger adjustably secured on the lower side of the seat-board forward of the aperture therein.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HAYWOOD PARKER.

Witnesses:

C. H. GILcHRIsT, W. J. CLAcK. 

